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~~ + SPECIAL INVESTIGATT _) DIVISION ‘ June 14, 1962 Background: Intensive searches of the Alcatraz and Angel Island areas have failed to reveal any trace of the trio of escapees whose efforts over a year plus lax security apparently en- abled them to get into the Bay using a pontoon fashioned from fifty-five raincoats they had col- lected. The paddle recovered by the Coast Guard near Stuart Point lighthouse indicates the possibiliy thes the trio traversed th reach— erous currents. Press con: of Bureau of Prisons,at which Warden of Alcatraz and Assistant Director of Bureau of Prisons we present, not well received becal of these officials’ evasive atti- tude, refusal to allow photograph: of ascape route, and refusal to answer questions concerning lax duinistration.